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On December 25, in Baku, Fuad Akhmedli, a member of the Youth Committee of the opposition Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest on the charge of disobeying the police.

The murder of Boris Nemtsov had nothing to do with his political activities, the investigator said at the consideration of the complaint on the refusal to reclassify the case into the article dealing with an attempt on the life of a statesman or public figure. The injured party insists that political motives of the murder are unreasonably denied, but the court upheld the investigation's position.

According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), the detainees had been preparing terror acts. Power agents have also reported liquidation of a laboratory for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Thanks to obtaining control over the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Chechenneftekhimprom", Chechen authorities will get a new source of income; however, these funds will be used primarily to strengthen the regime of Ramzan Kadyrov in the republic, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Rostov Regional Court (RRC) has upheld the extension of the arrest of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko.

This year, the Krasnodar Territory instituted criminal proceedings against 22 people suspected of trying to join the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) or recruiting fighters for it. This was reported by Leonid Korzhinek, Prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory, at a meeting with journalists held on December 24.

The death of Timur Kuashev, a Kabardino-Balkarian journalist, was caused by acute coronary insufficiency. This was reported by Valery Ustov, Chief of the Investigating Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Igor Barinov, the head of the Federal Agency for Nationality Affairs, has called on the authorities "to use force" against three newspapers in Dagestan. He has stated that their activities "border on betrayal of national interests." Staff members of the above newspapers have reported no reasons for such statements.

The Southern Military District is to pay one million roubles for moral harm to the mother of a conscript driven to suicide at the Russian military base in South Ossetia. The "Mother's Right" Foundation, which represents the interests of the victim, treats the amount as insufficient. On December 24, the verdict was challenged.

The man, killed in a shootout with the police in Khasavyurt on December 23, is identified as a 23-year-old native of the Tsumada District of Dagestan. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" by a staff member of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

In Yerevan, the Front of National Salvation "New Armenia" continues the round-the-clock sitting picket. According to the information of the united headquarters, the protest action involves about 15 people.

Three militants were killed in the abandoned summer cottage settlement in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR); the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in the republic has been lifted, power agents report.

Since the onset of the warfare in Syria, 20 natives of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have been killed there, said Valery Ustov, the Head of the Investigating Department (ID) for the KBR of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

In the Shamil District, in the course of a shootout, a suspected militant, who opened fire on the policemen, was killed, said a local law enforcement source.

A list of 22 political prisoners with the proposal to include them into expected New Year's pardoning was presented to the joint working group on human rights, said Novella Djafaroglu, a member of the Monitoring Group of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan (MGHROA).

The crisis in the relations between Russia and Turkey will not affect the situation in Northern Caucasus. This opinion was expressed by participants of the "roundtable" held at the Carnegie Moscow Centre. Meanwhile, the experts do not exclude that the crisis may affect the issues concerning Armenia.

In the Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, law enforcers tried to stop a car for inspection. However, people opened fire from the car. The attackers were killed by return fire.

In her complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Elita Magomadova has pointed out the violation in Chechnya of her right to raise her minor son. After Chechen courts had pronounced the decisions about leaving her minor son with her ex-husband, the woman has not been able to see her son for more than two years.

The Ukrainian side has sent a request to the law enforcement bodies of Rostov-on-Don. Ukrainian officials want to visit at IVS (temporary detention facility) Arthur Panov, a 17-year-old citizen of Ukraine, who became involved in the criminal case of plotting a terror act.

In Azerbaijan, 93 political prisoners are still kept in custody. This was reported by the working group for drawing up a single list of political prisoners. Members of the working group activists, human rights defenders, journalists, and advocates have called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release all political prisoners.